Stocks

I’ve always been fascinated with the stock market. I follow it daily and have accounts to trade with. One is a fully managed account and the other I make the trades. I think something in the stock market might be the career for me. I’m 25 and have a degree in healthcare business. The only thing I question my ability at is making phone sales. What are some careers in the stock market?

stock broker….

I want to know how many stock market crashes happened they don’t have to be big crashes but someone give the all the years of the stock market crashes from 1929 to today (2010). I want all the years or as many as you can give me. Remember they don’t have to be big crashes Just give a stock market crash year such like for example a small stock market crash happened early 2001.

It started in 2008 with a low point in March 9, 2009.

How do I start my stock quotes back to streaming???

Your Java or Flash software may have been corrupted, or the feed from the provider is at fault.

Best thing to do is call your broker technical support department. They are in the best position to help you.

I want to take stock quotes and access the individual numbers so I can add or subtract from them.
I want to take stock quotes and access the individual numbers so I can add or subtract from them on the site through programming

Set up a watch list on Yahoo finance.

How much has Wal-Mart’s stocks gone up or down over last 5 years? By percentage. Like its gone down 5% over the last 5 years or up by 8% and so on. I tried figuring it out, but I just don’t understand stocks, Its like reading another language and I need this information for an essay asap.

See http://finance.yahoo.com/q/bc?s=WMT&t=5y&l=on&z=l&q=l&c=

What happens when a company like Six Flags(SIXFQ.OB) and you own stock of that company get out of bankruptcy, what does that mean for the stockholder?

I know that’s a great news, but does this affect the stocks? Like they will dump it and it becomes useless?

The stocks are worthless….but you may get some leftover money if there is anything left after it’s paid off to executives and lawyers.

In other words, how long can it be to buy back stocks after short selling a stock? Can you short sell any high stock and wait for the next presidential election to buy back?

You are subject to a timeframe on the short sale but it’s a financial one not a regulatory one. When you short a stock you borrow it from the broker and you have to pay margin interest on that borrowed amount.

Margin interest is not a good deal until you get into huge balances (but big balances are still a decent amount of money) for long term purchases. You could offset the short with long calls but that costs something also (commission+premium).

Eventually if you are short long enough the potential gain will be offset by the actual loss on margin interest or option comissions and premium. Depending on the amounts and term you’ll have to do the math. The most you can gain on a short is the sale price all the way to zero but the upside risks are virtually unlimited so be careful with speculative issues.

I think the stock market can be a smart thing to experiment in even without much experience, in contrast to most advice given. My reasoning is that you can "practice" picking stocks for a very small amount of money- even under $100. You can buy just 1 stock option and though you won’t make much, you won’t lose much either and you’ll have experience of watching the market. Sure you can argue that you can study the market without putting your money into it, but I think having something on the line- even if it is only a $20 stock option- keeps your attention and diligence. I am inexperienced with stock trading- it’s been years since I’ve owned stock- but I’m smart, I have a financial mind, and I am a quick study. I think I want to take a few hundred dollars and spread it over a handful of well-picked stocks and watch it for a few months to see what happens. Maybe I’ll make a profit, maybe I won’t. But I’m not risking much. If you disagree, please explain your logic. Thank you!
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Oh! I agree… I found that it is an excellent, even fantastic< way to profitably spend your time. As you say, if you get in just a little…it’s great experience ( and always something to " click over to" on the computer.
If you’re into the " practice" part of it , a guy ( who occasionally answers here) has a nice site at:
http://www.top10traders.com/
Great place to see " how you can do" and look at the way about 1200 other traders play the game!
Good luck.
P.S. Correction: up to 1300 traders, now.

Im getting about $1200.00 and instead of spending it i want to invest it. Im going to college to achieve my MBA and become a fund analyst or a stock analyst. Eventually when i gather enough capital i will become a self employed investor. Im just looking for stocks with good dividends, to keep in their for years about 4-6 years.

You can visit the Dividend Detective http://www.dividenddetective.com/ for a list of dividend payers but you will have to weed out the large caps,
Also another site that will be helpful for you is Winning Investments http://www.winninginvesting.com/

However to get a better feel for investing you should visit, on a daily basis
http://moneycentral.msn.com/home.asp but here are other sites that you will find helpful, not only for investing but also for your education
http://www.investors.com/?tn=top
http://www.thestreet.com
http://www.brokerage101.com/
http://www.1source4stocks.com/
http://www.grahaminvestor.com/
http://www.morningstar.com/

Good luck on your journey

I need 4 characteristics for Small Cap stocks, Large Cap stocks, Penny stocks, and Defensive stocks.
I need 2 Growth stock companies, 1 Defensive stock company, 1 Large Cap stock, 5 Small Cap stock companies, 5 Income stock companies, 5 Penny stock companies. If you could also put the stock tickers with them that would be great!

Use your search engine (web brouser) and type each in and you will get plenty of answers